Patricia C. Wrede Quote

You’d think they’d been raised in a palace for all the manners they have. If they’re princes, they probably have been raised in palaces, Mendanbar said. Princes usually are. Well, no wonder none of them have any manners, then. The squirrel sniffed. They ought to be sent to school in a forest, where people are polite. You don’t see any of my children behaving like that, no, sir. Please and thank you and yes, sir and no, ma’am—that’s how I brought them up, all twenty-three of them, and what’s good enough for squirrels is good enough for princes, I say.